Ep. 4: Mike Shell Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2012
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Mike Shell, the founder of Shell Capital Management, LLC and the portfolio manager of ASYMMETRY Global Tactical.
The topic is Trend Following.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Coval. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:34.0 | So today on the show I have Mike Shell. |
| 0:37.2 | Mike is an investment manager at a Tennessee. |
| 0:40.1 | He is a trend following investment manager. |
| 0:43.1 | And Mike is a, he uses ETFs in his trend following trading. |
| 0:48.1 | So he's covering all the markets that a lot of the trend following traders that I've long |
| 0:52.2 | discussed are right in the middle of, |
| 0:55.2 | but he's using ETFs as his vehicle, which I think is a unique, unique proposition. |
| 1:00.2 | And we'll learn some more today about Mike's performance, his style, but I think it's going to be |
| 1:06.8 | a really interesting conversation because I tell you what, when you take a look at Mike's |
| 1:10.2 | blog, you're just going to see it's the stuff that it's the stuff that I love to put in my books he's got |
| 1:15.9 | on his blog and taking it in detailed ways that that I've not taken it so really interesting stuff |
| 1:21.4 | Mike I want to welcome you to the show today and I think we're going to have a good time how you |
| 1:26.9 | doing Mike I'm doing well so now just a good time. How you doing, Mike? |
| 1:28.2 | I'm doing well. |
| 1:32.1 | So now, just a little background too, and maybe you can expand to this some. |
| 1:38.3 | I do know we've, I think the first time we exchanged emails, I don't be 05, 06, it's been a long time. |
| 1:38.6 | We've never met. |
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